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The Ripon Café – formerly known as Jake's Coffee Shop – in the Schemper's Shopping Center at the corner of Main Street and Wilma Avenue is a favorite "hangout" for young and old who often make use of its Wi-Fi connection.

What is orange, round and 10 feet in diameter that can get a 60-year-old farmer that's 6-foot-2 and 205 pounds and arguably the biggest kid in Lathrop to the edge of his corn field without walking, driving, running, bicycling or even flying?

I recently took a week off and went relatively unplugged. For a few days I was out of cell range and without electricity or running water. It was heavenly. No politics. No shootings to hear about. No excess stimuli.

Although one of the city's newer salons, LUX Lounge in downtown Turlock is already making a name for itself as a business that offers clients the finest hair, skin, nail and other cosmetic services - all in one spot.

Ripon Wellness Center offers a path to wellness eliminating anxiety from the mind and body in the process of therapeutic massage as will be exemplified in an all-day symposium today at the Ripon Community Center that expects to draw some 200 people.